Constructive Use of Punctuation in Indian English News Headlines
Abstract
Newspaper headlines are a fascinating aspect of a newspaper article, and Linguists have been interested in them for years, as do researchers in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Linguists have found that news headlines have their grammar, which intrigues them. While for NLP researchers, it is the use of news headlines for solving various NLP problems. From text summarization to sentiment analysis, news headlines have been a significantly important part of the corpus database in several machine learning tools.
Various studies of the structures of news headlines have been conducted so far, but this time, the punctuation has caught our attention.
From separating and listing things to clarifying meanings, punctuation helps us express ourselves clearly. However, in News Headlines, it does much more than that. Punctuation has a very innovative use in the construction and interpretation of News Headlines.
In order to use headline data, we need to understand their structures, in which we found that punctuation plays a very significant role. We have studied different functions of punctuation marks used in different sentential positions of news headlines. We have presented our observations in this paper, which we hope will advance our understanding of the structure of news headlines for further Linguistic analysis and NLP applications.
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